美国式生活就是你永远可以在城市的角落找到一家星巴克，你所在的街区距离星巴克有多远可以衡量这个街区有多美国化。

With a shop on what seems like every urban corner, Starbucks is such a fixture in American life that you gauge a neighbourhood by how near you are to one of its coffee houses.

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由于在曼哈顿中我们不能“抄近路穿过”城市街区，因而在两个目标间的步行距离不是直线距离，这就是曼哈顿距离。

Since you can't "cut across" city blocks in Manhattan, the distance you have to walk between two destinations is not the straight-line distance, it's the Manhattan distance.

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我们上面讨论的这种距离被称为曼哈顿距离，这样叫是因为曼哈顿是以美国风格的城市街区布局的。

This distance that we've described is called the Manhattan distance, so-called because Manhattan is laid out in US-style city blocks.

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